Android gaming revenue growth far outpaced Apple during 2013 February 26, 2014 ANDROID gaming revenues grew 400 per cent during 2013 as games like King’s Candy Crush Saga and Gungho’s Puzzle & Dragons pushed spending on mobile games to a record high. Gaming on Apple’s iPhones and iPads saw only a doubling of revenues during the same period, according to a report from IDC and App Annie [...]
Bluetoothbrush keeps tabs on your teeth February 26, 2014 DENTAL hygiene is going high tech with Oral B’s new bluetooth toothbrush, which records your brushing habits and then feeds information back to your dentist. The £199 toothbrush, launched this week, also pairs with a mobile app that warns if you’re not brushing enough.
ITV rules out bid for Channel 5 as studio booms February 26, 2014 ITV YESTERDAY insisted it had no plans to bid for rival Channel 5, but said it was on the lookout for other acquisitions to add to its booming Studio business. Speaking as the broadcaster posted a 30 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £435m for 2013, chief executive Adam Crozier said ITV would not [...]
Analyst Views: Are you impressed by ITV’s performance? February 26, 2014 KEITH BOWMAN | HARGREAVES LANSDOWN“In all, and underwritten by the track record of the chief executive, analyst opinion remains positive – buy – in tone. The transformation plan is clearly blossoming, cash generation and costs remain a core board focus, while investors are being rewarded by growing shareholder returns. PAUL RICHARDS | NUMIS“ITV is finding [...]
Bitcoin exchange boss works to fix site as Japan probes closure February 26, 2014 THE BOSS of the biggest Bitcoin exchange resurfaced yesterday to reassure investors he is working to get the site back online, as Japanese regulators started to investigate the closure that left an estimated $375m (£225m) worth of bitcoins inaccessible. Mark Karpeles, head of the Mt Gox platform, said he was still in Japan and “working [...]
Sir Roy Gardner heads to William Hill February 26, 2014 FORMER Centrica boss Sir Roy Gardner has joined bookmaker William Hill as a non-exec director, the firm said yesterday. Gardner, who is the former chairman of Manchester United Football Club and catering giant Compass, led the British Gas-owner from 1997-2005. He will take over as senior independent non-exec director when David Edmonds retires at the [...]
Former Barclays traders in court on Libor claims February 26, 2014 THREE ex-Barclays traders appeared in court yesterday after the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged them with conspiracy to defraud by entering false Libor submissions. Jonathan James Mathew, 31, Peter Charles Johnson, 59, and Stylianos Contogoulas, 42, confirmed their names and addresses to Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The SFO claims that between 1 June 2005 and 31 August 2007 [...]
Mersch: China’s yuan could turn into the global reserve currency February 26, 2014 CHINA’S yuan may come to rival the US dollar as the most important currency in the world, a senior Brussels official said yesterday. Yves Mersch, an executive board member of the European Central Bank, was speaking in Luxembourg at an event endorsing the state as a location for the trading of China’s renminbi, also known [...]
Growth nudges US house sales to 2008 levels February 26, 2014 SALES of new homes in the US spiked despite the freezing temperatures in January, rising to the highest level since the summer of 2008, before the worst day of the financial crisis. According to the US Census Bureau, 468,000 homes were sold last month, 19.7 per cent above December’s 427,000. Activity in the market is still [...]
IP-oh no: Firms thrive despite shunning PRs February 26, 2014 WHEN it comes to raising millions on London’s stock market, who needs a financial public relation agency to help the cause? Most companies use one as it happens – and profitable work it is too, usually – but last year Foxtons, the ubiquitous estate agency, managed without one. Earlier this week, Kennedy Wilson Europe, an [...]